Re: Star wars land d23

Re: Star wars land d23

Honestly turning tomorrowland into Star Wars land would only make it more popular. I think thats just the general consensus. are people gonna come from all over the world to see tomorrow land or Star Wars land

Re: Star wars land d23

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Honestly turning tomorrowland into Star Wars land would only make it more popular. I think thats just the general consensus. are people gonna come from all over the world to see tomorrow land or Star Wars land

Hm, if Disney builds two Star Wars lands, one a massive expansion to Hollywood Studios with lots of rides and multiple Star Wars locales and then builds a small Star Wars expansion in DL's TL with fewer new attractions and incredibly limited by the limited space nobody from around the world will come to Anaheim, they'll all go to Orlando. We're going to get some half a** version to satisfy locals.

The Mickey audience is not made up of people; it has no racial, national, political, religious or social differences or affiliations; the Mickey audience is made up of parts of people, of that deathless, precious, ageless, absolutely primitive remnant of something in every world-wracked human being which makes us play with children’s toys and laugh without self-consciousness at silly things, and sing in bathtubs, and dream and believe that our babies are uniquely beautiful. You know…the Mickey in us.
-Walt Disney

Re: Star wars land d23

I have an idea that should solve all of this. Get rid of everything currently in Tomorrowland, rebuild a new area completely themed around Star Wars and call it "Long, Long, Ago and Far Far Awayland"

Should they also rename Frontier Land, Final Frontier Land?

The Mickey audience is not made up of people; it has no racial, national, political, religious or social differences or affiliations; the Mickey audience is made up of parts of people, of that deathless, precious, ageless, absolutely primitive remnant of something in every world-wracked human being which makes us play with children’s toys and laugh without self-consciousness at silly things, and sing in bathtubs, and dream and believe that our babies are uniquely beautiful. You know…the Mickey in us.
-Walt Disney

Re: Star wars land d23

Originally Posted by Ghostbuster626

I know he didn't keep the parks the same for very long. He was always willing to tear out entire attractions and areas to make way for something better and more exciting. He always wanted to keep up with technology and audience expectations.

He also didn't follow what the consumer trends were at the time, he created new ones that the audience didn't know they even wanted. I don't think Walt ever felt the need to take over entire lands with movie franchises to make a quick buck; why do you think he kept them in Fantasyland for the most part and why do you think his latest concepts were all original ideas and exclusive to Disneyland?

In Walt's mind, relying only on existing work was beneath the Imagineers and himself, they could do much better. Disneyland was its own product, not a rehash of others he had already created on the big screen.

Re: Star wars land d23

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Honestly turning tomorrowland into Star Wars land would only make it more popular. I think thats just the general consensus. are people gonna come from all over the world to see tomorrow land or Star Wars land

But it cant be a full SW land when about a half a dozen attractions wont be themed to SW. It would have to be a subland basically UNLESS they tear out stuff like SM, Buzz, Subs, Monorial, etc and thats not going to happen.

Thats ultimately the problem. DL just doesnt have the room to build 5 acres of untouched land. And it would look like an odd hodge podge with Buzz and Autopia streaming through it.

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Theyd have to re-brand Space Mountain as:

THE KESSEL RUN.

A perfect fit!

The Kessel Run was an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines.

About the Kessel Run... It took travelers in real space around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable—but far easier to navigate—area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.
AND... we know, the Millenium Falcon did it in less than 12 Parsecs.

Re: Star wars land d23

Originally Posted by Darkwingdolt

Theyd have to re-brand Space Mountain as:

THE KESSEL RUN.

A perfect fit!

The Kessel Run was an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines.

About the Kessel Run... It took travelers in real space around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable—but far easier to navigate—area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.
AND... we know, the Millenium Falcon did it in less than 12 Parsecs.

Please no. Space Mountain is already one of the most popular attractions in the park as it is right now, so it does not need to rely on a movie tie in.

Re: Star wars land d23

Originally Posted by Seawolf

He also didn't follow what the consumer trends were at the time, he created new ones that the audience didn't know they even wanted.

I know that is how it appears now. But most of the fundamental concepts behind Disneyland were already in the popular imagination of his time, Walt just preserved them in his own way (as in Main Street) or recast them (as in Fantasyland).

The one place on the Disney property where he tried to do exactly what you think he did is Tomorrowland. There the results of that imagineering speak for themselves.